Grey was about to ring on the black, iron gate-like door with snakes wrapped around its poles as it flung open itself. He cleared his throat before entering the king's study room.
Axel was poring over some papers at the metal desk as he had his eyebrows knotted and lips in a thin line.
"Your maje-"
Grey flinched as the door shut with a loud thud. Axel let out a guttural grown, and Grey adjusted his brigandine.
"Okay, I won't call you that, but can you stop doing that?" He said and motioned at the elegant, gothic door.
Suddenly the leather-covered book flew from the shelf behind Grey, and he barely ducked in time.
"Axel!"
The king caught the book without raising his head from the papers.
"Okay, silent treatment," Grey said as he sighed and draped his hands on his sides.
Axel slammed the book on the surface as he stood up and ripped his dress shirt while his right hand shook his head.
"Hate when I'm wrapped in those stupid things," Axel stated nonchalantly.
"Well, we, normal people, call those stupid things clothes."
Grey had come across many astonishing warriors, but Axel's physique far exceeded theirs as well as his extraordinary fighting skills.
The dragon had the honor of having the eight pack, toned and chiseled like a statue sculpted by the gods themselves. His collarbones were delicate compared to his muscular arms, yet Axel didn't appear as a bulky man. His body was well defined and nourished, relevant to the dragons' clan, acclaimed for the out-of-world beauty.
Axel rubbed his neck and looked out of the window with a penetrating gaze.
"If this tantrum is about the princess Alice, I'm sorry but-"
"You had no right to interfere!" Axel snapped at Grey. His usually blue eyes now were viperous, glowing golden. The king's right hand took a step backward as he reconsidered his following words.
"She would have tainted your name, Axel! I know you don't give a fuck about yourself, but I do!"
"Shut up, Grey! I am doing the same shit as her, and you're a fucking hypocrite! You don't understand a thing! You knew I needed the princess of the River kingdom to execute that fucking mating bond nonetheless of her background!"
"And you have one!"
"I had to have the older one! Rebel is 16, for fuck's sake! She is still so young!" Axel couldn't pacify himself as he was instinctively approaching his friend.
"Age gap between you two doesn't exceed four or five years, and by the way, girls her age were already leading their families."
"And that was the dumbest shit! My mother was destroyed like that, Grey!"
Both of them sighed as they averted gazes from each other. The silence reigned for a few seconds before Grey uttered:
"We will find another way to unleash your powers, Axel."
"You know there was only one way to do that."
"Yeah… To bed the River kingdom descendant."
Grey ran his hands in his snow hair as he inhaled and shook his head, "That stupid curse."
"We are up against the enemy that aims to obliterate the whole world, and without my full power, they can do it."
"I'm sorry. You are right." Grey muttered under his breath as he bent his head like a child that got rebuked.
"And that damn girl's character makes me go crazy."
Grey shot his eyes at Axel, who was staring at the wise, lonely mountains on the horizon above as a sequence of dense forest.
The right hand smiled, his dreary gaze replaced by playful sparkles in his eyes.
"Maybe you two can get along, after all."
"What?" Axel exclaimed, wide-eyed, "We will never get along. Just look at how bullheaded she is!"
"And you are an angel, aren't you?"
"I am a fucking dragon, Grey," Axel inched towards his right hand, "cold-blooded beast, and that's why she must stay away from me."
"Stay away from you? Did you do something?"
Axel rolled his eyes before recalling how Rebel shied away when he was so close to her in the carriage. Her rapid heartbeat, innocent eyes, and soft breathing flooded his mind as something dark and wild awakened in him. Axel was used to women spreading their legs for him. But mature women, not innocent little girls. It was all new to him.
"Axel?"
Axel was brought to reality from the lustful scenarios that crossed his mind one after another. He had to get laid.
"Axel, you are smiling and…."
Axel directed his gaze at amused Grey, who clicked his tongue peeping down, suppressing a chuckle. The king briskly glanced down at his tightened pants before he cursed under his breath and shoved his long fingers in his dense hair.
Grey laughed heartedly at his lustful dragon friend, whose inevitable sidekick was sex.
"Where is Femme?" Axel asked, almost growling, but before Grey could come up with a witty remark, the walls resonated a shriek.
Both of them faced each other with puzzled looks before they darted out of the room.
"Axel!" A golden-haired woman squealed as she ran in their direction, totally naked, clenching bedsheets in front of her.
"Femme?"
Axel frowned at the woman as she fervently hugged him. Grey lifted his eyebrows at the female priestess of the kingdom as Axel shot him a baffled look.
"What's happening?" Axel mouthed to him.
"No clue," Grey answered with the same gesture and shrugged.
"Axel!" The woman was shivering in his chest as Axel wrapped one of his strong arms around her.
The king was about to read her mind but was stopped in midway.
"So much for a sexy woman."
The mocking voice pulled everyone out of the haze as Axel snapped his head towards the source of the familiar tone.
***
[Rebel]
Yep, moans. I heard moans. Look, I wasn't an innocent little bird. I knew how sex sounded like, but it wasn't a couple enjoying each other there—the sound of mellifluous pleas belonged to a desperate woman.
I shut my eyes close and let the energy surge through me. Soon I snapped my eyes open and could see through the walls.
Ew.
Why dear lord? Why? Why did it have to be my room?
My enhanced vision let me study the forms and shapes of objects through any obstacle. And I could decipher a woman fingering herself through the stone walls.
C'mon! That jerk would get for this! How did he let his whore wander in MY room?! Wait, was this room his too? Accordingly, it belonged to both of us… Wait, were we going to share the bed?
"Please,"
My eyes dilated. It was the last straw! If she left a trace of her release on my bed, I would beat this bitch!
"Another!" I mumbled a particular word as I shut my eyes, and I felt my figure stretching and growing in size at immense speed. Wow, Axel was big. In a few seconds, I transformed into Axel, into his clone.
I glanced at his southern areas and felt my cheeks heat up.
Man, he was packing some heavy stuff!
No doubt why females fell in heat in his presence. Okay, that was gross.
I opened the door and was tempted to flinch or vomit as the woman wrapped up in bedsheets smirked at me with a soft sigh.
"Axel, you smelled me from miles away. I know."
Miles? Not quite, but I was sure it was possible for any non-dragon person considering her state.
Wait! I knew that blonde! She was the one making out with Axel!
The woman had a cloud of pink dust covering her high cheekbones as her watery, needy eyes were filled up with urgency. She rubbed her legs together, squeezing the sheets stuck between them.
"Oh? I see. Your eyes are about to pop out. Please, fu-"
"Stop!" I shut her up with my hand raised.
It was hot in here, and this woman was no help. God! I didn't want to be like her when I grew up.
I was going to teach this goon a memorable lesson.
"Let's play, shall we?" I snarled at her trying to smirk like Axel but ended up with a wrinkled nose and furrowed eyebrows. I landed on the bed as she groaned, not leaving my gaze as I crawled to her.
"Axel!" To my surprise, she cried out and got rid of the sheets, sending them flying into the air as she spread her legs apart.
"WHAT THE FUCK?"
I screamed and jolted up from the bed, mortified—the blonde blinked at me, perplexed, while I grimaced as my face contorted in abashment and revulsion.
I let my guards down because my magic faded away, and I felt an extensive amount of energy leaking from me. I was losing my power!
"AH!"
I snapped my head at her as an ear-piercing scream left her mouth. I changed into my usual self, but what had frightened her so much?
She looked utterly terrorized and speechless as she inched away from me with wide eyes and gaped mouth.
"AH!"
She jumped from the bed, clutching the remaining sheets, and dashed to the exit.
What the… Pft, let me check myself.
I strolled towards the luxurious bathroom, and my mouth fell open. I wished this room were only my possession!
As I neared a sizable mirror, I gasped nonplussed.
…Fuck!
I had Rebel's head but Axel's enormous body. I rolled on the ground with teary eyes. It was such a contrast I couldn't conceal a peal of laughter. I laughed and laughed till my stomach hurt.
But that woman kept screaming.
I had to test the waters with the dragon king a bit more.